New research finds that AI models tuned to be warmer and more empathetic toward users are significantly more likely to produce factual errors and validate misinformation, raising concerns for trust and authenticity.
A new cottage industry of Fiverr gig workers is producing AI-generated Bible videos for Christian content creators, revealing the supply chain behind faith-based synthetic media flooding social platforms.
Mixed precision training combines FP16 and FP32 numerical formats to accelerate neural network training while preserving accuracy. Here's how it powers modern AI workloads from LLMs to video generation models.
Nebius has agreed to acquire Eigen AI for $643 million, expanding its AI infrastructure and capabilities portfolio in a notable consolidation move within the rapidly growing AI compute market.
Huawei expects its AI chip sales to grow at least 60% in 2026 as China accelerates self-sufficiency in compute. The Ascend roadmap could reshape the global AI hardware landscape — including the GPU economics behind generative video and synthetic media.
Deepfake incidents impersonating US government officials are accelerating, with synthetic voice and video being deployed in social engineering attacks against senior figures and federal staff.
Stripe's Link digital wallet now supports autonomous AI agents, letting them complete purchases on behalf of users — a major step toward agentic commerce infrastructure.
Spotify is rolling out a 'Verified by Spotify' badge to help listeners distinguish human-made music from AI-generated tracks, as synthetic audio floods streaming platforms.
Hyperscalers' Q1 2026 earnings validated massive AI infrastructure bets — and immediately raised the spending ceiling again. Here's what Google, Microsoft, and Meta's accelerating CapEx means for the AI compute landscape.
Alphabet is signaling another major capital expenditure expansion through 2027 to meet what it calls 'unprecedented' AI demand, with implications for compute capacity powering Gemini, Veo, and the broader generative media stack.
A new public-private R&D working group has launched to coordinate deepfake detection, response protocols, and digital authenticity research across government and industry stakeholders.
ChatGPT app downloads are decelerating as competition intensifies from Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude, raising questions about OpenAI's growth narrative ahead of a potential IPO.